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A Revelation About Trees Is Messing With Climate Calculations |
Trees make clouds by releasing small quantities of vapors called "sesquiterpenes." Scientists are learning more—and it's making climate models hazy. |
An Epic Fight Over What Really Killed the Dinosaurs |
HOT TOPIC | 6-MINUTE READ |
A machine learning model has joined a vigorous debate over whether volcanoes began dinosaur doomsday well before the asteroid hit. |
A Lab Just 3D-Printed a Neural Network of Living Brain Cells |
Mini-brains that work and grow like their full-size counterparts could offer an alternative to animal testing and advance the quest for personalized medicine. |
Katalin Karikó's Nobel Prize Marks the Beginning of an mRNA Vaccine Revolution |
Nobel Prize winners Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman pioneered the technology that produced a Covid-19 vaccine in record time. Next, mRNA could tackle flu, malaria, and HIV. |
How Insect Brains Melt and Rewire During Metamorphosis |
FLEETING MEMORIES | 8-MINUTE READ |
Do fruit flies remember their larval lives? To find out, scientists made the neurons inside larvae glow, then tracked how they reshuffled as they formed adult brains. |
Which Spider-Man Is Stronger: Tobey Maguire or Tom Holland? |
DOT PHYSICS | 7-MINUTE READ |
To figure it out, you'll need two similar feats of superhero strength and a little bit of physics. |